What addons do people recommend if you are switching from Jaws to NVDA?
Dennis Long
What addons do people recommend if you are switching from Jaws to NVDA?
Mister Kayne
Hello Dennis,
Here are the add-ons I use currently, they are not recommendations but they do help in my experience with NVDA.
1. CloudVision: An extension for describing images by utilizing recent advances in AI
technology. Press NVDA+Control+I to get a description of an object or selected file in
Explorer, if you press twice quickly, a virtual viewer will open.
Get it here: https://nvda-addons.org/addon.php?id=261
2. Speech history review and copying: This add-on allows you to review the most recent strings spoken by NVDA, by default using Shift+F11 and Shift+F12. Additionally, you can copy any spoken item to the clipboard by pressing F12. Use the settings panel for the add-on to increase or decrease the maximum number of stored history entries, and decide whether whitespace should be trimmed from the start or end of text. Use NVDA's Input Gestures dialog to change the supplied keystrokes.
Get it here: https://nvda-addons.org/addon.php?id=63
3. SysTrayList: Shows the list of buttons on the System Tray with NVDA+F11 once, twice shows running task lists.
Get it here: https://nvda-addons.org/addon.php?id=54
Warm regards,
Mister Kayne
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Sean Randall
Ones I’ve seen in the store that add specific JAWS things include:
The Application Dictionary addon or enhanced dictionaries processing replicates JAWS dictionary manager support to some degree.
NAO adds support for OCRing PDF documents, a bit like JAWS built-in OCR
Virtual review lets you put screen contents into a browsable dialog, which JAWS has keys for already.
UTalk adds support for announcing copy and paste actions
Say Product name and version adds support to hear the current application version with a hotkey, which JAWS already has
Say control type before label echoes a setting JAWS has deep in it’s settings centre
Place Markers adds support for markers in web content
Extended winamp adds many hotkeys similar to JAWS builtin winamp support
Address bar manager adds a hotkey for the browser addressbar as JAWS has.
I’ve not used most of these. Also there used to be a screen wrapping addon for browse mode keys in the web, and an enhanced find dialog one which changed the way search results in the web worked too as I recall.
Sean.
Dennis Long
Will UTalk be updated for NVDA 2026.1?
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Dennis Long
Thanks Sean that is a huge help.
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John O'Regan
Here are a few links for you:
10 NVDA ADD-ONS TO BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY
https://slnconline.com.ng/10_nvda_addon_to_boost_your_productivity_and_effeciency.html
AccessWorld Classics: Editor's List of Essential NVDA Addons
https://afb.org/blog/entry/accessworld-classics-editors-list-essential-nvda-addons
And here are 2 relatively new add-ons:
Links Management for NVDA
https://github.com/amirsol81/links-management/
Screen Wrapping for NVDA
https://nvda-addons.org/addon.php?id=156
HTH! :)
John
Sean Randall
Hi Dennis
I’ve just tested it out on 2026.1beta4 by overriding the incompatibility and it works just fine, as does Screen wrapping as mentioned by John earlier(which is a feature I still miss, even though I left JAWS over a decade ago now). I can’t imagine it’ll do anything terrible to try it when an official 2026.1 release lands.
If nobody else has done so a week or 2 after that happens, I’ll add a section to the switching from JAWS to NVDA guide on the website with a list of the addons available in the store and what JAWS features they add to NVDA.
Sean.
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Dennis Long
That would be good. That Jaws to NVDA guide is sorely out of date. Also include the links one and the
Typing and spelling rate addon.
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